Myles the Gymnast

Dear restless natives, here is installment number 1 of Myles' gymnastics performance his last week of preschool (last week). He is now at home with me for two weeks, and we are traveling (virtually) all over the world with a wonderful world map and an art/activities book that someone had the foresight to gift us with before Myles was born. Today we visited Japan and Korea and made a Japanese doll (Myles drew his first face!) and a Korean drum. I'm hoping to take him to enjoy some french crepes before our jaunt comes to a close...

He really is in this precious, inquisitive stage that feels very different from where he was six months ago. He's like a sponge (he overheard Seth say this to me at dinner and piped up with, "I'm not a sponge!"), taking it all in and just loving the world. This week he learned how to hit a nerf baseball. He also baked cookies with Seth and wanted to deliver every last one to every last neighbor on our street. The girls next door weren't home until after he went to bed, so he woke up at 7am, sprung out of bed and said, "Let's take cookies to the girls!" Needless to say, they did get some cookies on their way to school.

Last weekend, Seth's brother Greg visited us with his wife Megan and their 7 month old Molly. Myles was very interested in baby Molly, and quite pleased when he could make her smile or laugh. He also had a hard time sharing the spotlight. We took Molly for her first trip to the pool, and I had to practice deep breathing as Myles never seems to want to wear those swimmy things on his arms but would rather just hang on to a floating noodle. We loved their visit!

I'm bone tired and want to run tomorrow morning, so I'm going to sign off and leave you with this video. As you can see, Myles' instructor takes preschool gymnastics very seriously, and Myles became a bit silly with all the attention directed at him for this performance. He loved it.